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My last review was on the Gospel Library app for Android. The Church did a fantastic job with it and true to form brought us another awesome app. LDS Tools, and I am not talking about those guys that play basketball every week in the cultural hall… (sorry guys) LDS Tools is a powerful way to keep track of people in your ward and stake. Need to know who is in charge of Primary in the other ward? Look no further. You need to be able to log into the church website to be able to use this app. What it does is pull the entire Stake directory into your phone for easy search and use. It keeps addresses, phone numbers and E-mail addresses all at your finger tips. This information is all available on the church website behind passwords you need your membership # to long in. Have no fear it’s not publicly accessible.

An alternative to this program is Ward Central. It works in pretty much the same way, it is more Ward based. There is another version called Stake Central which is just that more Stake oriented. Both are Free (now).

Ok folks, here is the skinny, there are some real nice Android phone/tab apps for you all to consider. The first one I am going to review is Gospel Library. This app was created by the Church, well members of the church. It has a fantastic interface and did I mention it’s FREE?!?!

The official write up is “Gospel Library is an official application from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that allows you to study, highlight, and annotate the scriptures on your Android phone. You can also access LDS General Conference, Gospel Principles, and the Old Testament Study Guide”

I use this app all the time, I can get to scriptures very quickly and hymns as well. This is a must have if you have an Android powered device, for me it beats carrying a set of scriptures, I have a little boy to carry.

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There are other scripture apps out there, most of them come with a fee. Sorry fee guys you are missing a letter r… Free…

LDS Scripture App – comes with a price tag of $14.99 and has many of the same features, plus many more not offered by Gospel Library.

No, I’m not talking about giant women… I’m talking about self reliance, well no I’m not talking about that either. What I am getting at is saving some more cash in these financially difficult times. I recently found on Amazon.com a service called Amazon Mom. If you are familiar with “Amazon Prime” this service is very similar except for the upfront fee… There is no fee for Amazon Mom. You get the perks of Amazon Prime’s free 2 day shipping and a sweet up to 30% discount on baby care items you use all the time, such as baby wipes and diapers. It’s easy to sign up, you automatically get 15% off most brands, we use Pampers. You can even sign up for a subscription service to products you use most, the subscription gets you another 15% off. We get a box of diapers delivered monthly, it’s pretty sweet, we don’t need to go to the store. The price we get beats the big box store prices. The average price for a box of papers is about $40.00 for the 176 pack, we get it for $28.00 through Amazon Mom. Technology, saving us money 1 box of diapers at a time.

It’s been a couple years and since I’m still paying for the domain and hosting plan, I guess I better use it. MormonCast is what we make it. It started out as a Video blog, now it’s a blog that might have some video. I will be posting items related to things I know well, technology, video production, being a Dad and Church.

and so begins another chapter of MormonCast…

Original episodes of MormonCast are up on Youtube and my still be available on iTunes.